Jean Cooper: 30 books

Book cover of Chinese Alchemy

Chinese Alchemy

Taoism, the Power of Gold, and the Quest for Immortality

by Jean Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Here in one slender volume is a basic introduction to Chinese alchemy—a tradition that dates back 5,000 years. Chinese alchemy, largely associated with Taoism, has a recorded history of more than 2,000 years, but traditionally it goes back even further to nearly 3000 BC and the time of the...
Book cover of Echo of Love
by Carol Jean Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014

When you really want something, does it sometimes seem that it will never happen? Do life, and people, and situations that you cant control get in the way? Theodora (Dora) wants nothing more than to do her charity work in the slums of Alexandria, Egypt. Didymus wants only to do his duty to the Roman...
Book cover of From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
Book cover of Global Carbon Pricing

Global Carbon Pricing

The Path to Climate Cooperation

by Richard N. Cooper, Christian Gollier, William D. Nordhaus
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017

Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed. After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything),...
Book cover of Technology in America

Technology in America

A History of Individuals and Ideas

by Merritt Roe Smith, Brooke Hindle, Hugo A. Meier
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018

The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Book cover of La prairie

La prairie

( Edition intégrale ) Tome I II III - illustré - annoté

by James Fenimore Cooper, Paul Louisy, Michał Elwiro Andriolli
Language: French
Release Date: October 4, 2018

La Prairie, l’un des meilleurs romans du cycle Bas-de-cuir, suite et fin du Dernier des Mohicans, nous entraîne dans les plaines de l’Ouest américain, à l’époque des pionniers, des convois, et des attaques indiennes. Naitty Bumppo est maintenant un vieil homme qui erre dans la prairie, toujours...
Book cover of Illustrated Introduction To Taosim:

Illustrated Introduction To Taosim:

The Wisdom of the Sages

by Jean C. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

Containing 118 stunning color illustrations, this beautiful book provides an introduction to Taoism, one of the great religious and philosophical movements in Chinese thought. Incorporating selections from J.C. Cooper’s writings, it explores the concept of the Tao (Way), the symbolism of Yin-Yang,...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Book cover of Writing through the Visual and Virtual

Writing through the Visual and Virtual

Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean

by Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Gabrielle Civil, Barbara Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015

Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance...
Book cover of Les Pionniers
by James Fenimore Cooper, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret Traducteur
Language: French
Release Date: March 23, 2016

Près du centre du grand État de New-York est un district étendu, consistant en une suite non interrompue de coteaux et de vallons ;  ou, pour parler avec plus de déférence pour les définitions géographiques, de montagnes et de plaines. C’est...
Book cover of Le Bourreau de Berne ou l'Abbaye des vignerons
by James Fenimore Cooper, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste de Fauconpret
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014

AU commencement d’octobre 1832, une voiture de voyage s’arrêta sur le sommet de cette longue descente qui conduit des plaines élevées de Moudon en Suisse, au niveau du lac de Genève, précisément au-dessus de la petite vallée de Vévey. Le postillon...
Book cover of Le Paquebot américain Annoté
by JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, Defauconpret, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste
Language: French
Release Date: December 18, 2013

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé.  Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait :   U n bâtiment qui à ses voiles déferlées et son pavillon déployé est toujours un beau spectacle,...
Book cover of Les Puritains d'Amérique ou la Vallée de Wish-ton-Wish
by James Fenimore Cooper, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014

C'EST dans une époque reculée des annales américaines qu’il faut chercher les incidents sur lesquels se fonde cette histoire. Un demi-siècle s’était écoulé depuis qu’une colonie d’Anglais pieux et dévoués, fuyant la persécution...
Book cover of Eve Effingham ou l'Amérique
by James Fenimore Cooper, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014

QUAND M. Effingham se fut déterminé à retourner en Amérique, il envoya ordre à son gérant de mettre sa maison de New-York en état de le recevoir. Il avait dessein d’y passer l’hiver, et d’aller à sa maison de campagne quand le printemps...
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